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Polish foreign ministry condemns «brutal» crackdown on protests in Belarus
The Polish foreign ministry has strongly condemned “the brutal quashing of the peaceful protests” staged across
“Once again we are witnessing the Belarusian regime employ a vast array of instruments of repression to suppress the activity of democratic forces: such as preventive arrests, detentions of journalists, the Internet blockade and the use of tear gas,” the ministry’s press office said in an English-language statement on Monday.
“Belarusian society is more and more manifestly calling for changes,” the statement read. “The ever stronger peaceful protests cannot be endlessly suppressed by means of mass beatings and arrests. This cannot choke off independent media coverage. Sentencing today an independent journalist Igor Bancer [a Polish Community activist in Hrodna] to ten days’ arrest only confirms how much the authorities fear freedom of speech.”
“We express respect for the courage of those Belarusians who manifest their will to live in freedom,” the statement said. “Once again we appeal to the authorities in Minsk for amnesty and rehabilitation of political prisoners and those arrested following the incidents on 19 December 2010 as well as for starting dialogue with the opposition—for the good of Belarus and Belarusians.”
Some 390 people were arrested during a fresh round of silent protests across
As previously, protesters did not carry any signs or chant any slogans, expressing their discontent at the Lukashenka regime only with hand-clapping. Plainclothes policemen plucked people from the crowd and dragged them violently away into unmarked buses. Many arrestees were subsequently jailed or fined under the Civil Offenses Code. //BelaPAN
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